Samuel Kennedy

KENNEDY, SMITH

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/6/2002 at 21:30:39

Samuel Kennedy was born in Ireland, November 19, 1843. He was educated in the common schools of that country, and at the age of twenty-one years came to the United States and located in Brooklyn, New York, where he engaged in the dry goods business, and there remained until 1865. At this time he came west and settled in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, on a farm, where he lived for five years, and then engaged in general merchandising, which business he followed until 1875. He then resumed farming for five years, and in the spring of 1880 came to Shell Rock, Iowa, and engaged in the meat and egg trade. In this branch of business he continued for some time, and then formed a partnership with Charles Austin and became one of the proprietors of the Hawkeye Creamery. He was married in 1867 to Miss Amy Smith, who is a native of England. They have been blessed with five children – Job, Robert, Kenneth, Joseph and Annie.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 718